One should always maintain an attitude of respect towards other religions. Dispute not, as you rest firmly on your own faith and opinion
RAMAKRISHNABecause of the pot the water appears to be divided into two parts; because of the pot you seem to perceive an inside and an outside.
More Ramakrishna Quotes
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A devotee who can call on God while living a householder’s life is a hero indeed. God thinks: ‘He is blessed indeed who prays to me in the midst of his worldly duties.
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You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world?
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One must be very particular about telling the truth. Through truth one can realize God.
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God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof.
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Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully.
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Do not be small minded. Do not pray for gourds and pumpkins from God, when you should be asking for pure love and pure knowledge to dawn within every heart.
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If you are trying to thread a needle, you will not succeed if the thread has even a slight fiber sticking out.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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When the head of a goat is severed from its body, the trunk struggles for some time, still showing signs of life.
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Bondage is of the mind; freedom too is of the mind. If you say ‘I am a free soul. I am a son of God who can bind me’ free you shall be.
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That is very good. But never get into your head that your faith alone is true and every other is false. Know for certain that God without form is real and that God with form is also real.
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The jnani sees that both inside and outside there is nothing but Paramatman. Then what is this pot? It is ‘I-consciousness’.
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All, without any exception, will certainly know their real Self.
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The waves belong to the water. Does the water belong to the waves?
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Unless one always speaks the truth, one cannot find God Who is the soul of truth.
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